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Mali: The Imbalance of Power

France is to withdraw its troops from Mali, in the enforced culmination of a nine-year mission to help preserve security in the porous and febrile West African nation. Parallels can perhaps be drawn with last year’s international retreat from Afghanistan, in terms of a sudden and unexpected change in authority that hastened the departure and

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Golden Blunders

The UK government is to scrap the ‘golden visa’ scheme, which permits foreign investors to make a substantial financial donation in return for access to a paperwork fast lane, in response to concerns that Russians are exploiting this. This is presumably ahead of announcing a new coat of arms, which will consist of a stable

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The Faultlines of Fraud

When is a crime not a crime? When it’s a fraud. That at least appears to be the view taken by the UK government, whose Business Minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, made the claim last week in an interview claiming that crime levels had dropped by 14%… because fraud was excluded from those figures. Quite apart from

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